Elmira Mangum, the incoming president at Florida A&M, will start her new job April 1. Eric Barron, Florida State University's president for the past four years, is off to Penn State on April 2.

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It's very possible that Eric Barron and Elmira Mangum will never meet.

Barron, Florida State University's president for the past four years, is off to Penn State on April 2. Mangum,the incoming president at Florida A&M,will start her new job April 1.

I have this image of them agreeing to say hello to one another at a rest stop on Interstate 81 near Hazelton, Pa., where Eric and Molly Barron will be turning west on I-80 for State College and Mangum and her black-and-white terrier Pearl will be on their way south from Ithaca, N.Y., to Tallahassee. ...